Bug#552625: apt-ftparchive: Does not allow generation of multiversion Packages files

[Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.7.22.2
Severity: normal


Hi,

  There does not appear to be any way to instruct apt-ftparchive to generate
multiversion package files. I consider this a bug and not a wishlist item
because the documentation states,

       apt-ftparchive is a superset of the dpkg-scanpackages(8) program,
       incorporating its entire functionality via the packages command. It
       also contains a contents file generator, contents, and an elaborate
       means to ´script´ the generation process for a complete archive.

  and dpkg-scanpackages has a --multiversion option.

  Either apt-ftparchive should be fixed to support multiversion Pacakges
files (this would be the preferred option IMHO), or the documentation needs
to be updated to reflect that apt-ftparchive is actually a subset of the
dpkg-scanpackages program.

  Thanks,
    Tyler


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 0.7.22.2   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.7                      4.7.25-7   Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.1-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt-utils recommends no packages.

apt-utils suggests no packages.

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